Google gets the green light to test its delivery drones inside the US

The day when an autonomous flying machine drops by your home to deliver a package edged a little closer on Tuesday after the White House announced that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has been granted special permission to test its drone technology on U.S. soil.

Project Wing – Alphabet’s drone initiative that’s been several years in development – has been given the go ahead to try out its technology at one of six specially designated drone test sites “to gain full operational experience of its delivery service in a safe testing environment,” the White House said in a fact sheet published Tuesday … MORE